Monday, January 30th
Phonograms: We are starting to work through all 70 phonograms each week. We recommend choose a few each night to review with your scholar.
Spelling Words: prove, hear, heard, inspect, always, expect, something, need, thus, young, woman, women, fair, fare, dollar, evening, plan, broke, feel, least, sure, sugar, sorry, press, God, god, teacher, November, subject, April
Spelling Test on Friday!
Your scholar will be starting the classic to keep "Little House in the Big Wood" next week. They will be working on reading comprehension skills, listening skills and answering questions about the text. If your scholar has not brought their book to school send it with them on Monday, next week.
CLASSIC TO KEEP NEEDED:
Each day, students will bring home a book of choice from the GHNO classroom library. At home, students will read this book aloud to an adult.
Each day please log:
1. The title of the classroom library book read.
2. The total minutes your student spent reading (20 minutes minimum).
3. Parent initials confirming minutes read.
Please make sure your scholar is reading and this log is filled out and turned in on Mondays.
It will be counted as a quiz grade.
Your scholar will be writing a procedural booklet. They will be learning the importance of procedural writings and being clear and precise when giving instructions.
Your scholar will learning about bar modeling using addition and subtraction word problems. Along with learning how to draw the bar model to match the information given in the word problem. There will be sent home a review on Thursday, please review with your scholar, sign and return.
Your scholar will starting a new unit going over The Constitution. They will be learning about the life after the Revolutionary War and who the state leaders (founding fathers) are the met in Philadelphia in 1787 will do.
Your scholar will be finishing their Human Body unit with the final test being on Wednesday, January 31st.
Your scholar will be practicing at school but we highly encourage parents to help their scholar practice each day at home. Making sure that they are showing expression, following punctuation, and saying the title and author.